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Bicycle Makers · France
Everything Ebykr holds on Caminade: four articles, a Timeline of 23 dated events from 1896 to 1951 and 10 documents in the archive.
The history of Caminade on Ebykr.


Pierre Caminade's Caminargent bicycles of the 1930s: aluminum frames with cast lugs, octagonal tubes and take-apart couplings, decades ahead of their time.
Grouped by format, the most read first.

A timeline of Pierre Caminade of Paris, about 1910 to 1951: the Rectiligne derailleur and the aluminum Caminargents that came apart with one wrench.


The build sheet of a 1937 Caminade Caminargent Bordeaux-Paris from the Embacher Collection: octagonal aluminum tubes, bolted lugs and a Stronglight crank.

Caminade and the Caminargent in pictures: advertisements and press clippings, the 1936 French and 1937 English catalogs and detail shots of surviving aluminum bicycles.
Where Caminade is named outside its own pages: three articles and two archive documents from two publications.
The articles that name Caminade most often first.
…Read Goëland: Soaring to Lofty Heights and Tech Specs: 1958 Goëland Randonneur. Pierre Caminade. L'Auto, February 19, 1937. Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF · Pierre Caminade (Levallois-Perret, then Bois-Colombes) took…
…century "Barralumin" creations. Other names that come up here also include: Pierre Caminade, with his beautiful Caminargent creations and their exotic octagonal tubing, and also Gnome et Rhône, with its deep…
…et Perrin, Haubtmann, Mercier and Aviac, the Pelissier brothers, Nicolas Barra, Pierre Caminade and Gnome et Rhône, to its late-century revival in Ateliers de la Rive's glued-aluminum Vitus 979. Every date below…
Filed under publications whose words name Caminade; the biggest share first.
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